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fumes

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fume  (fym)
n.
1. Vapor, gas, or smoke, especially if irritating, harmful, or strong.
2. A strong or acrid odor.
3. A state of resentment or vexation.
v. fumed, fum·ing, fumes
v.tr.
1. To subject to or treat with fumes.
2. To give off in or as if in fumes.
v.intr.
1. To emit fumes.
2. To rise in fumes.
3. To feel or show resentment or vexation.

[Middle English, from Old French fum, from Latin fmus.]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.fumesfumes - gases ejected from an engine as waste products
waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product - any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted; "they collect the waste once a week"; "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers"
gas - a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely
Translations
fumes
plDämpfe pl; (of car)Abgase pl; petrol (Brit) or gas (US) fumesBenzindämpfe pl; to run on fumes (fig inf)auf dem Zahnfleisch gehen (inf)

fumes [fjuːmz] nplesalazioni fpl, vapori mpl
fumes [fjuːmz] nplesalazioni fpl, vapori mpl

fumes أبخِرَة plyny røg Abgase αναθυμιάσεις gases kaasut émanations isparenja esalazioni 煙霧 연기 dampen røyk opary fumaça, gases испарения ångor ควันพิษ duman khói 烟雾


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My brethren, will ye suffocate in the fumes of their maws and appetites
An instant before, Stubb had swiftly caught two additional turns with it round the loggerhead, whence, by reason of its increased rapid circlings, a hempen blue smoke now jetted up and mingled with the steady fumes from his pipe.
That was because they had intoxicated her with fumes of hemp and opium.
 
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